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Glenn Ford, at his slow-to-rile best, plays Richard Dadier, an incoming English teacher at North Manual High School. An idealist who knows how to handle himself in a dark alley, Dadier stands his ground and earns the begrudging respect of school thugs led by Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier. Anne Francis plays Ford's especially vulnerable wife; Richard Kiley (later in Brooks's Looking for Mr. Goodbar) is the timid math teacher with the priceless jazz-record collection; Louis Calhern and John Hoyt are among the more cynical North Manual High veterans. See if you can ID Jamie Farr and director Paul Mazursky as gang members. The film was nominated for four Oscars. --Glenn Lovell
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Richard Brooks |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 25 March, 1955 |
| MANUFACTURER: | MGM/Ua Studios |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| UPC: | 027616089533 |
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SHOCKING Film for 1955 Remains Taut to this Day Said to provoke violence, this film about 1955's brutal and vicious NYC school system remains taut and effective to this day. The direction by Richard Brooks is groundbreaking. Based on Evan Hunter's novel, Brooks tackles the idea of contempt for authority within the school system as a problem with a distinct solution. That solution comes in the form of an idealistic new teacher played with effective restraint by Glenn Ford. Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow portray the two major protagonists from the class of intimidating and delinquent juveniles. Sidney Poitier is the one weak link that Ford realizes he can reach. Poitier is antagonistic and disturbingly introverted but not truly dangerous. Vic Morrow is malicious and a real threat. Vic Morrow's performance is intense, riveting and absolutely convincing. Vic Morrow's talent as one of our finest actors seems long forgotten and certainly has gone unrecognized for too long now. His performance here is testament to that and adds to the shock value of this film. The very effective acting is convincing setting a benchmark for this genre on society's problems in urban education. In all, that is the point of this film. It is all about the strong and the weak be they teacher or student trying to survive in this setting. <
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Bleak, Noir, style with still important social comment
on the problem of junvenile violence in our public schools. This is the 1950's version of the problem in a decaying urban setting, far from the safe neighborhoods & suburbs Americans were flocking to at the time. The presentation is reminiscent of the live TV dramas of the day: cheap & with minimal production values relying on the talents of the actors. And excellent acting it is. Glenn Ford is Richard Didier, at first glance, a milquetoast English teacher. His mettle is quickly tested by angry, violent, young punks posing as his students. He rises to the challenge, including a vicious physical attack, to win them over with his refusal to quit & his courage. The picture is to some extent, incomplete, providing little context in which "this garbage" as one teacher discribes the students was produced. Vic Morrow is remarkable as the unrepentant, particlarly menacing student/criminal. Sidney Poiter plays an alienated, cynical student with a class & dignity that becomes his trademark in future films. This movie, dated though it is, has been the subject in many college level course through the years. The musical bookends, "Rock Around the Clock", of this movie may have also signaled a new era in movies & music. An enduring American classic.
"Woo 'Daddio!'" (recommended)
Glenn Ford delivers a powerful performance as a tough new teacher cutting his teeth in the all-boys classroom of the least likely to succeed. Gang members, malcontents, and mentally deficient assemble daily to teach Richard Dadier (Ford) who's the boss. Refusing to relent results in some valiant faceoffs in a classroom turf battle. Reaching out for help, Dadier looks to an independent student portrayed by Sidney Poitier but isn't assured of his support when it counts.
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>Movie quote: "Yeah, I've been beaten up, but I'm not beaten. I'm not beaten, and I'm not quittin'."